Originally Posted by treads0322

It turns out that (as I understand it) they had started boarding the plane, then something tipped the captain/flight crew that the local security was not following new TSA policies to his satisfaction. They offloaded the plane and rescreened every passenger, including a hand search of carry-ons, full pat downs, and...no liquids permitted to be carried on, "not one gram". Not the bottle of water you bought in the airport snack bar, not your 3-1-1 liquids, not even (from what I saw in the pile of "contraband") your duty-free bottle of rum.